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TIL after the failure of the 1986 film "Howard the Duck", George Lucas sold some of his assets to recoup the budget, including a computer-animated company to Steve Jobs. That company would go on to become Pixar.

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XEd9E TIL the phrase "The luck of the Irish"'s original meaning was Irish people could only achieve success through luck rather than skill.
0vjN TIL that while Judge Judy was on a tour of Australia in 1999, she blasted a safe injection program saying “Give ‘em dirty needles and let ‘em die”.
d8xOj TIL there was a man who made a $5 bet in 1964 that man would reach the moon before 1970. He won $24,000.
kOXx5 TIL a friar is a monk without a monastery
Me5KA TIL that US submarine torpedos in WW II often failed to detonate due to faulty design of their firing pins. To correct the problem, Pearl Harbor workshops designed and mass produced new firing pins from the propeller blades of Japanese aircraft downed in the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.